Justin Trudeau joins vigil after ice hockey team’s bus crashes

About 3,000 people attended a service at an arena in Saskatchewan where the Humboldt Broncos playedJONATHAN HAYWARD/REUTERS

Canada was in mourning after a bus crash killed 15 people, many of them members of a junior ice hockey team.

The nation has experienced an outpouring of grief following Friday’s collision. Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, was among thousands of people who attended a vigil last night in Humboldt, a small town in Saskatchewan.

Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, was among the crowds at the arenaJONATHAN HAYWARD/REUTERS

There were 29 people on the Humboldt Broncos team bus. Ten players, aged between 16 and 21, died when it collided with a lorry. The team were travelling to a league playoff game in the town of Nipawin, about 125 miles northeast of Humboldt.

The team’s coach, assistant coach, the bus driver and two people from a local radio station were also killed. Fourteen people were injured, two critically.

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